Hey Cons, still wondering why you can’t win in the 416?

Expanding the meddlesome Toronto Port Authority isn’t helping you cause, I can tell you that. This is stupid and for reasons that I think many small-c conservatives might support. Here you have a expansion of a big federal bureaucracy that is overriding local democracy, and you also have some nice fatcat patronage appointments. You talk about electing the senate but you want to dictate to Toronto in an undemocratic fashion what we Torontonians are going to do with the waterfront. Leave us alone.

Ben,
I don’t disagree, but still, it baffles me that they do things that seem to punish Toronto and appear to be contrary to their stated principles (though by now it should be apparent that Harper’s main principle is to not have any principles).